Miata Mailing List: March 1997, Message #25
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Actually John, I believe the reason European cars come with feature regards

the headlight cutoff laws that change from country to country. For example,

if you buy a British (right hand drive) car and head over to France or

Germany, your headlights may be aimed in violation of *their* standards. The

switch allows a quick, simple fix.



Min



  

>John Freas (jfreas@gte.net)

Electric headlight aim adjusters seem to be common on UK (and European?)

cars.  The intent is to allow an intelligent driver to easily adjust his

lights to ensure they are aimed properly whether his car is lightly or

heavily loaded.  Remember, the European lights tend to have a sharp cut-off

on the low beams, and if you load the car with people and luggage you end

up with the low beams shining in people's eyes (without adjustment).



I played with these adjusters on a rental Vauxhall Cavalier I had in

Scotland last year - very effective!  Unfortunately, our governments here

seem to feel we aren't intelligent enough to handle the responsibility of

using this sort of device...



Regarding the Dakar (beautiful!), I have a different question about that

panel - why would the electric mirrors control be located there, when we

get a dash-mounted control (between the steering column and the dash light

dimmer control)?

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